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Teesta Water-Sharing Deal: No progress until polls end in West Bengal Our Correspondent, New Delhi Our Correspondent, New Delhi India has conveyed to Bangladesh that any progress on the long-pending Teesta water-sharing issue will be possible only after the completion of the assembly elections in West Bengal. This was communicated to Bangladesh yesterday during the talks between the water resources secretaries of Bangladesh and India in New Delhi after Dhaka raised the issue, officials said. The eight-phased West Bengal polls will end on April 29 and the counting of votes is scheduled for May 2. The Indian response came after Senior Secretary Kabir Bin Anwar, who led the Bangladesh side in yesterday s meeting, stressed on signing of the interim agreement on sharing of Teesta water as agreed by both the countries in 2011, said a press release issued by the Bangladesh side.

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